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NOAA announces next solar storm cycle will likely start next March

The next 11-year cycle of solar storms will most likely start next March and peak in late 2011 or mid-2012 -- up to a year later than expected -- according to a forecast issued today by NOAA's Space Environment Center, in coordination with an international panel of solar experts. Expected to begin last fall, the delayed onset of Solar Cycle 24 stymied the panel and left them evenly split over the cycle's intensity.

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